Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Millennium Campaign, Femnet and Oxfam GB announce d here Thursday the commencement of a series of global conversations to discuss the status of the promises world lea ders have made to women in the Millennium Development Goals.
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New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro, has cal led on UN member states to close the gap between the formulation of laws and the realities of gender inequity.
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New York- US (PANA) -- An outcome document adopted at the end of the Fourth Worl d Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, known as the Beijing Platform for Action, "continues to guide o ur action today" in the global efforts for the full realization of women's rights, a senior UN official said here Tuesd ay.
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Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan women, particularly in government, want to achie ve equal representation in the number of decision makers in the coming years, th e Minister of Familiy and Women Promotion, Genoveva Lino, said here Wednesday.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Gambian Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP), in partnership with Yolocamba Sol i daridad of Spain on Wednesday held a one-day conference on Generating Alternativ e s to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP), a women's rights organization, in p artnership with the Yolocamba Solidaridad and the region of Madrid in Spain, wil l host a sub-regional meeting here Wednesday aimed at fashioning alternatives to f emale genital mutilation (FGM).
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Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) â" Women human rights- activists in Mauritius, unde r the umbrella Women in Politics (WIP), on Thursday asked political parties to f i eld women as one-third of their candidates in the next general elections.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The heads of state and government who participate d in the 14th African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have announced the creation of a fund meant for African women.
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New York- US (PANA) -- A new fund managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has announced over US$9 million in grants to support initiatives in 26 countries to empower women.
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Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Several participants from the education sector, state in stitutions concerned by social and women's affairs and civil society organisations on Wedne sday took part in a round table in Tripoli on "The right of Libyan women to have full citizenshipâ?.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambia women rights group, The Gambia Committee on Tradi tional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP) will Sat u rday honour ex-circumcisers and their communities at the Basse Stadium in the Up p er River Region.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Gambia is a firm believer in the importance of gende r mainstreaming and the promotion of gender equality, especially for women, Vice President Isatou Njie-Saidy has said.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Beijing Platform for Action not only emphasises achi eving equality, womenâ?s political and economic empowerment and eliminating disc rimination but also focuses on the integration of women as full and equal partne r s in all policies and decision-making processes, a senior United Nations Officia l said.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) â" Gender activists meeting -in Banjul, the Gambia, have c alled for â?deliberate effortsâ? towards the nomination of female candidates fo r African Union Commission chair â?as a sign of equal sharing of leadership and responsibilities for delivering on the development agendaâ? on the continent, ac cording to a statement received here by PANA Wednesday.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The United Nations Commission for Africas has called on governments and the international community to prioritise achievements of gender equality and womenâ? rights because this was essential for reducing poverty and promoting growth.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Gambia will host the â?African Regional Conference on Womenâ?, dubbed (Beijing+15), with over 28 African ministers in charge of ge nder affairs and high level participants from some 43 countries expected to atte n d, the Addis Ababa-based Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the main organise r , said in a communiqueâ? received here by PANA Friday.
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Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in old age, a World H e alth Organisation (WHO) report has found.
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The third edition of the international conference on black women, which is a group of talented women who have come together to bette r participate in an emerging new Africa, will be held in Kinshasa 28 November - 4 December.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The representative of the United Nations Fund for Popula tion Activities (UNFPA) to Senegal, Mrs Rose Gakuba, on Tuesday called for a sig n ificant contribution of men and boys to the fight for gender equality.
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Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Hundreds of serious cases of violence against wo men were recorded in Mauritania between 2007 and 2009, the Chairperson of the As s ociation to fight Against Dependence (ALCD-RIHAB), Mrs.
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The US will support the fight against sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to the tune of US$ 17 million, the Am e rican Development Agency (USAID) announced in a press release here.
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New York- US (PANA) -- South African lawyer Rashida Manjoo, who has also worked a s an academic in the human rights field and a campaigner against domestic violence, has taken over as the new UN indepen dent expert to tackle violence against women.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Women's Rights Movement of the Gambia on Monday appe aled to the Office of the President to release the jailed six Gambians journali s ts, particularly the only female among them, Sarata Jabbi.
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New York- US (PANA) -- UN Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS in Africa, Elizabeth Mata ka, has called on African countries, more especially those in the Great Lakes Re g ion, to make rape a punishable offence.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Expressing concern over the lack of women in decision-ma king roles in agricultural development issues in Africa, a group of leading African women scientists has urged African leaders and US pol icymakers to put women at the centre of efforts to address chronic hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- West Africa's regional representative for the UN High Commission for Human rights, Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, said Wednesday in Dakar that African governments must make more efforts to guarantee gender equality.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Visiting African Union (AU) chairman and Libyan leader M ouammar Kadhafi has called for the education of African women to enable them take their rightful places in the soci ety.
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Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egypt has agreed to set up a branch of the Non-Aligned Mov ement (NAM) Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW) in Cairo as suggested b y Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Malaysian Prime Minister.
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Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- While the Ugandan leader, Yoweri Museveni, criticized F emale Genital Mutilation (FGM) as ‘interference’ with God’s works and then banne d the age-old practice in his country, some traditionalists here are set to resis t the government’s action.
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